“Hot” liftback announced for US market Acura Integra Type S: the camouflaged prototypes have already been tested. Basically it will Acura Integra with a power unit from a hot hatch Honda Civic Type R: A 2.0 VTEC turbocharged engine with more than 300hp, six-speed manual transmission and front-wheel drive with limited-slip differential are promised. The Integra’s three-barrel exhaust system will also be nearly the same as the Civic’s. The debut of the Type S version should take place in the summer of 2023.
Volvo CEO Jim Rowan spoke about the mystery car, the teaser of which was released during the crossover premiere Volvo EX90. It turns out that an electric SUV is shown on the left in the photo. Volvo EX30, which will be smaller and cheaper than the current XC40. Already next year, the production of the “thirty” will be distributed in China, and in addition to traditional sales, Volvo will actively develop leasing and subscription.
The first spy photos of the updated electric car have appeared Tesla Model 3. First conceptual version “troika” was introduced in the spring of 2016, the production model of Tesla shown in the summer of 2017, that is, sales have been going on for more than five years. More recently, Elon Musk spoke about the upcoming modernization of the sedan: the number of parts will be reduced, which should lead to simplification of production and a decrease in the cost of cars. Also, the modernization will affect the exterior and interior of the electric car, technical upgrades are possible. Production of the facelifted Tesla Model 3 sedans is expected to begin in the third quarter of 2023 at the company’s Chinese plant.
Production of an electric crossover Cupra Tavasca will also be established in China: it will be the first model of the Volkswagen Group, which will be delivered from China to Europe. Subsequently, the list of imported cars will be expanded. Conceptual Tavascan debuted three years ago, and more recently it has been published the first image of the production version on the MEB platform. The crossover will enter the market in 2024, but the full premiere should happen sooner.
AVTOVAZ Since the beginning of the year, it has produced 200 thousand cars (including Renault models) and car kits. The “jubilee” was the Lada Granta sedan in the maximum configuration to date with two airbags and air conditioning. By the end of the year, Togliatti plans to produce another 20,000 cars. Now there are only three models on the conveyor – Grant, Niva Legend and Niva Travel. Production of Vesta and Largus is expected to resume next year, but XRAY will not be returning to the range.
The European Business Association has published its new car sales statistics in Russia for November. If Autostat takes as a basis registration vehicles in the traffic police and takes into account unofficial sales, the AEB only works with official data from car manufacturers, which have many gaps (BMW, Mercedes, Chery, GM), but light commercial vehicles are taken into account. According to the AEB, 46,403 new cars were sold on the Russian market in November, which is 61.6 percent less than a year earlier. The cumulative result for the eleven months of 2022 is 549,000 vehicles (a decrease of 60.9%). The absolute bestseller of the market is Lada Granta (80,370 units for January-November), and among light commercial vehicles – Gazelle (26,281 copies of two generations).
Even today we talked about the sedan Mercedes-AMG S 63 E PerformanceSUVs Munro Mk_1 and upgraded electric vehicles Volvo XC40 and C40.
